This week's second topic was about Interactive
PowerPoint. Let’s start talking a little about PowerPoint and then we can understand
how useful this program can be for teaching.
What is PowerPoint?
PowerPoint is a complete presentation graphics
package. It gives you everything you need to produce a professional-looking
presentation. PowerPoint offers word processing, outlining, drawing, graphing,
and presentation management tools- all designed to be easy to use and learn.
The following gives you a quick overview of
what you can do in PowerPoint:
When you create a presentation using
PowerPoint, the presentation is made up of a series of slides. The slides that
you create using PowerPoint can also be presented as overhead transparencies or
35mm slides.
In addition to slides, you can print audience
handouts, outlines, and speaker's notes.
You can format all the slides in a presentation
using the powerful Slide Master which will be covered in the tutorial.
You can keep your entire presentation in a
single file- all your slides, speaker's notes, and audience handouts.
You can import what you have created in other
Microsoft products, such as Word and Excel into any of your slides.
(Source: http://homepage.cs.uri.edu/tutorials/csc101/powerpoint/power.html)
Is It Important To Create an Interactive
PowerPoint Presentation?
related links
10 things you can do to give your PowerPoint presentations a heartbeat
How to Create an Interactive PowerPoint Presentation
Make a PowerPoint Multiple Choice Quiz
Dear JC,
ReplyDeleteYehey, another "goodies" for us all. You always share with us substantial blog posts. You work hard to do it extensively, thank you once again JC.
"The idea is to create a slide presentation that can encourage our students to interact with the teacher or lecturer and help them understand and learn the topic that we are explaining." Absolutely true! Powerpoint presentations should not just be a repertoire of colorful visuals and elements but of meaningful and significant thoughts to learn about.
I have yet to apply the ten things to do to make a powerpoint presentation a heartbeat. I am excited.
Wishing you the best JC....
Sonia
Wooohooo! Yes!!! What a tool! Now we can do nearly anything we want in our class! Anyway, did you know that there are some alternatives to Power Point which might be even better, depending on which features you desire the most? Google Presentation is meant to be online replacement for PP. It offers all the same features as PP but one main advantage is that it can be accessed from any computer that has the Internet access. All you need is Google account or g-mail account and the application is all yours - you just access it from the Google Drive. Highly recommended!
ReplyDeleteRegards,
Alicja